Hoang Nguyen/The Daily Cougar

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Waiting on a partner: Drew Schefman looks on as the Social Dance Club at UH meets Sunday at the Cougar Den of the University Center Underground. Participants meet to dance and learn swing, waltz, tango and samba.

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AUSTIN — The Cougars managed just two runs in each game of their series against Texas, and that wasn't enough.

Things become less stressful for students if UH President Arthur K. Smith rubber stamps a proposal to allow students to quit a class before the last drop date without the result negatively affecting their grade point averages.

hese days we allow our truly great actors to make one or two awful movies in their career — De Niro had Showtime, Ed Norton had Death to Smoochy and Harrison Ford had Six Days, Seven Nights.

The 2002 NBA grand finale is shaping up as anything but grand, and can hardly even qualify as a finale with the Lakers winning the first three games almost effortlessly, with final scores 99-94, 106-83 and 106-103, respectively.